To be honest, Weller’s discussion of digital scholarship (chapter 4) leaves me conflicted. While I would definitely appreciate more open access to scholarship online, I am also worried about the abuse. Authorship – the now classic New Yorker cartoon (below) applies to academic authorship as well. Of course,the open access would make it also possible to improve […]
In chapter 2, Weller makes the argument that our students have changed and provides data on how much time today’s students read in comparison to play online and watch TV. He quotes Oblinger (2005) and Grunwald (2003) that found that students want from the Internet mostly “new information’ and “learn more or learn better.” I find that […]
I had password troubles earlier with the domain, but it’s all ironed out now. Then I came across this:
Here is to a new beginning in blogging. After a number of years behind Blackboard and Canvas walls, my university’s Domain of One’s Own project triggers me to write down my thoughts on the process of getting my own web domain (www.marcelrotter.net) in a more public way. The first challenge – choosing a domain name. […]
Today is the day: Another semester of blogging with a 395 class has passed and I present at the Faculty Academy on my experiences. I enjoyed everyone’s contributions, although I was hoping for a little bit more of interaction between the bloggers. I will talk about the possible reasons I see for the reluctance of some […]
What a trip it was: Last Wednesday, I was scheduled to go to Albuquerque, NM to present at the conference of the Southwest chapter of the Popular Culture Association (SWPCA). It all started, when I learned that the limo service that was supposed to pick me up informed me over the phone that they have […]
Die Konferenz in Florida hat großen Spaß gemacht. Da war natürlich zuerst das Wetter: 85 Grad Fahrenheit sind sehr angenehm im Februar. Ich hatte Washington an diesem Morgen bei 41 Grad verlassen. Die Leute waren auch sehr interessant. Einige kannte ich schon von einer Konferenz in Charleston, SC vor zwei Jahren. Es war also leicht, […]
One of the most memorable sessions was the meeting with Manya Friedman, a Holocaust Survivor. After telling us about her ordeal in Nazi occupied Poland where she lost almost all of her formerly large family, she talked about her life in the US. When her son got married, the photographer wanted to take separate pictures […]
During the first week of January, I participated in a faculty seminar at the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington , D.C. Under the title The Holocaust: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders, 20 professors from all over the US discussed historiographical and pedagogical approaches to teaching the Holocaust. While most of the participants were […]